Thursday, February 07, 2008
SWEET AIR
We are finally getting the weather that we deserve!
I just got back from the afternoon walk with Franklin and we were actually warm and the air is just so sweet.
Spring.
It has been a hard winter.
Yeh. I know.
For you who are still shoveling and all, that may sound pretty lame.
But it is true.
It is the coldest winter we have had since we moved here 11 years ago.
I know because the electric bill last month broke records. We have a heat pump for backup heat. We don't use it much. We did this winter.
Another sign.
By this time other years we were ready to have people visit and swim in the pool. Well, people who are used to water on Cape Cod anyway.
By President's day we would have it up in the high 70's.
No chance of that now. 70 at best.
Fortunately no guests are scheduled. Well, what there are are SoCal people who, like us, would not think of the pool until maybe mid or late May.
Everyone was out today, in their yards or walking.
It is that kind of day.
And the winds swept everything clean.
In come cases, a little too clean. Thirty trees in Sunrise Park just a mile or so away from us.
But these are all trees that would not normally grow in this desert.
Even though they are big, they relied on higher water so the root systems did not go deep.
You can't screw with Mother Nature.
Well not for long.
